Kenji Yoshino is Guido Calabresi Professor of law and former Deputy Dean at Yale Law School. He was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Law School. A specialist in constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature, he has published work in a wide variety of academic journals, including the Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. His popular writing has been featured in The Advocate, The Boston Globe, The Nation, The New York Times, Slate, The Village Voice, and The Washington Post. He has appeared on “The Charlie Rose Show,” Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” and the “Tavis Smiley Show.” He lives in New Haven, CT, and New York City. Emily Bernard is Associate Professor of English and ALANA U.S. Ethnic Studies at the University of Vermont. She has edited two books. Remember Me to Harlem: The Letter of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendship (2004) was chosen by the THE New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age, 2006. Her essays have been published in several anthologies and journals, such as American Scholar, Modernism/Modernity, Studies  in American Fiction. Her essay, “Teaching the N Word,” appeared in the 2006 edition of  Best American Essays. Another essay, “Figurines,” will be featured in the 2009 edition of Best  of Creative Non-Fiction. Bernard has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a Resident Fellow at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University.  In 2008-9, she will be a Resident Fellow in the James Weldon Johnson Collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Library.
Her upcoming book, White Shadows: Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance, will be published by Yale University  Press in 2009.  John Gennari is Associate Professor of English and Director of the U.S. Ethnic Studies   Program at the University of Vermont. He is the author of “Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and
 Its Critics” (University of Chicago Press, 2006), winner of the 2007 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Book in American Cultural Studies, and of a 2007 ASCAP-Deems Taylor  Award for excellence in American music criticism. He has authored many articles on jazz  and African-American culture, Italian-American cultural studies, visual culture, film, and sports. Gennari has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities,  the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, and the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. He’s currently working on two book projects, one tentatively titled “The Jazz Salon: Lenox, Music Inn, and 1950s America,” and the other, “Passing for Italian: Crooners, Gangsters, Celebrity Chefs and Other Italian Poses in American Culture.” Catharine Wright, MFA, teaches in the Writing Program and directs the annual Pedagogy Workshops series for the Center for Teaching, Learning and Research at Middlebury

 
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OTHER FACULTY DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES Symposium HOSTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATE PROVOST Blackboard Jungle; FOR MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS AND ACADEMIC INITIATIVES Navigating Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Wednesday, March 26th NEW Classroom Culture Curriculum & Instruction: Going Beyond Conversations on Diversity and Enhancing Our Abilities to Respond to Our Diversity Mission with Dr. Shakti Butler The 21st Century Classroom is a complex, diverse and multifaceted space for teaching. ™\ääÊ«°“°ÊqÊ££\ääÊ«°“°ÊÊUÊÊ
i˜ÊœÕÃiÊ,“°Ê£ä{Ê This symposium, designed for faculty members, will address some of the challenges The Center for Cultural Pluralism will host a forum for members of the University of Vermont to learn that emerge when gender, race and sexuality intersect and shape how students learn more about themselves and how to best serve the diverse needs of students on campus. Dr. Butler will lead and how we teach. Keynote and plenary sessions will provide the opportunity for faculty a discussion based on three articles and clips from her movies The Way Home, Making Whiteness and Visible. members to consider and converse about how these issues impact their teaching. Monday, March 31st Friday, March 28, 2008 Eureka Moments 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. £\ääÊ«“°ÊqÊÓ\ÎäÊ«“ÊÊUÊÊ >ˆiÞÊœÜiʈLÀ>ÀÞÊ,“°ÊÎäÎÊ Sugar Maple Room, 4th floor, Davis Center The Center for Teaching and Learning will host a colloquium on teaching diversity at UVM. Faculty will discuss and provide examples of a multicultural curriculum in various disciplines. Faculty will also Early Registration 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. review how to submit a course proposal addressing the new six-credit diversity requirement’s criteria Welcome: President Fogel 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. and competencies and how to access course development funding through the Instructional Incentive Keynote: Emily Benard 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Grant Program. Talking about “Teaching the N Word” st Reception 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. /ÕiÃ`>Þ]Ê
«ÀˆÊ£ Showing of the Movie Diversity and Community Engagement: Blackboard Jungle 5:30 pm. – 7:00 p.m. Strategies for Enhancing Curriculum Î\ÎäÊ«°“°ÊqÊx\ÎäÊ«°“°ÊUÊÊ ˆˆ˜}Ã]Ê œÀÌ ÊœÕ˜}iÊ The office of Community-University Partnerships & Service-Learning (CUPS) will host a workshop on integrating service-learning and community-based research into new and/or existing diversity. The first Saturday, March 29, 2008 part of the workshop will feature a facilitated dialogue among participants about why and how service- 8:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. learning and diversity are connected. The second half will include a panel discussion with guests from area Billings Hall organizations who are directly addressing social equity and diversity issues as part of their everyday lives. Registration 8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. 7i`˜iÃ`>ÞÊ
«ÀˆÊÓnd Keynote: Kenji Yoshino 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Getting Published Plenary I: Kenji Yoshino 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. £Ó\ääÊ«°“°ÊqÊ£\ÎäÊ«°“°ÊÊUÊÊ >ۈÃÊ i˜ÌiÀ]ʈÛ>ŽÊ,œœ“ Case Studies The Office of the Provost will host a panel presentation and discussion on getting published. Tenured Keynote Luncheon: John Gennari 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. faculty from various disciplines will provide tips and resources on how to become a successful scholar. Light refreshments will be served. Blackboard Jungle Plenary II: Catherine Wright 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. /ÕiÃ`>Þ]Ê
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i˜ÊœÕÃiÊ,“°Ê£ä{ The Center for Cultural Pluralism will host an introduction to key themes and concepts related to Deaf Culture. Through the use of general and specific exercises and discussion, we will look at issues related to class practice, issues of language in curriculum, issues of how students self-identify and resources for Resources Tables on Display- March 29th further self-learning or teaching tools.